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Agfa Monotype

The company was established as Agfa Monotype Corp. in 1998 as a subsidiary of Agfa when its Typographic Systems Division merged with Monotype Typography, a typeface foundry that began in 1887 as the Lanston Monotype Machine Company. Based in Wilmington, Mass. with regional offices in the U.K., Japan and China, Agfa Monotype specialized in fonts and font technologies for graphic professionals, software developers and manufacturers of printers and display devices. The company also provided print drivers and imaging technologies to OEMs (original equipment manufacturers).

Agfa Monotype was a wholly owned subsidiary of Agfa Corp. based in Ridgefield Park, N.J. and was part of Agfa's Graphic Systems business unit. Agfa was the U.S. subsidiary of the Agfa-Gevaert Group, one of the world's leading imaging companies. Agfa developed, produced and marketed analog and digital systems primarily for the graphic imaging, healthcare, micrographic, consumer desktop, motion picture and photography markets. Headquartered in Mortsel, Belgium, Agfa had 40 national sales organizations globally, with worldwide sales of 4.215 billion euros in 2003. It had a 7000+ font collection in its Agfa Creative Alliance.

After Agfa joined forces with (in fact, absorbed) Monotype, Agfa acquired ITC in March 2000. In 2003, Agfa Monotype acquired Faces Ltd., a typeface distributor in the U.K.

Designer profiles. History of the company by Lawrence W. Wallis (dead link). Monotype library today.

The 2004 type development team included Geoffrey Greve, Dave Opstad, Mike Leary, Delve Withrington, George Ryan, Chris Oppenberg, Jason Campbell and Jim Wasco.

In November 2004, TA Associates purchased a majority interest in Agfa Monotype from Agfa Corp and the company was renamed Monotype Imaging Inc.

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